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I’m out for an hour. But I’ll be back with info on the 49ers last pick of the 6th round. The 49ers just got their big blocking tight end, and hopefully Nate Byham will work out better than Bear Pasco did last season. Byham also brings a little bit of receiving ability. He caught 20 […]
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That’s it for me for the second day. We’ll return tomorrow with the 49ers having three picks in the sixth round and one in the seventh. The 49ers picked Penn State linebacker Navorro Bowman. Bowman is a 242-pound inside linebacker with a troubled past. He was part of group that beat up a man at […]
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Player personnel director Trent Baalke called it a “perfect storm” in the first round when the 49ers needs aligned perfectly with the best talent on the board. Now that the offensive line is heavily bolstered with tackle Anthony Davis and guard Mike Iupati, the 49ers should go after their next need in today’s second round […]
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Director of player personnel Trent Baalke just finished speaking with the media. He said the team was willing to trade to the 10th spot to get Anthony Davis, but they didn’t feel they needed to because the Jaguars drafted two tackles last year. Baalke called getting Davis and Iupati “a perfect storm.” Baalke said the […]
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It’s Christmas day or days we should say in the NFL. So who will be the newest Niners by day’s end – Joe Haden, Trent Williams, Anthony Davis, Eric Berry? And what about the rumors. The 49ers supposedly wanting to trade up with Cleveland at no. 7 to get a tackle? Or the Steelers wanting […]
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WHAT LABOY BRINGS: The news that Travis LaBoy signed a one-year deal for $1.6 million, puts him in direct competition with Manny Lawson, whose contract expires at season’s end. Certainly their sack and pressure totals will be compared but so will their abilities to stop the run. The 49ers allowed 3.6 yards per carry last […]
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The NFL released the 2010 schedule just now, and they have the 49ers opening the season Sept. 12 at Seattle. The home opener comes one Monday night later, when the Super Bowl-champion Saints visit Candlestick on MNF. As for the Bay Area rivalry, the Raiders cross the bay Oct. 17. They also play at Arizona […]
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As the draft approaches, could any of the local players from Cal or Stanford land on the 49ers? Possibly in the late rounds, but I wouldn’t expect the two top prospects, Cal’s Jahvid Best or Stanford’s Toby Gerhardt to get any 49ers love. The 49ers don’t seem to be in the market for a change-up […]
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I received an e-mail from one disgruntled fan. He doesn’t understand why the 49ers are signing and trading for players like quarterback David Carr and receiver Ted Ginn Jr., when they could be trading for Donovan McNabb, wide receivers Santonio Holmes and Brandon Marshall or cornerback Antonio Cromartie, all high-profile players who were traded recently. […]
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The 49ers acquired Dolphins WR/KR Ted Ginn Jr., the No. 9 overall pick just three years ago, for a fifth-round pick, according to multiple national media reports starting with Fox’s Jay Glazer. A league source confirmed the deal is going down, but said it is pending (as all trades do) until Ginn passes a physical. […]
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49ers new quasi-general manager Trent Baalke just finished a round table with those slubs like me, who cover the team on the regular. Baalke was guarded and that’s not surprising, he’s never been in this position of talking to the media. Baalke didn’t want to say what positions in the draft he felt had depth […]
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Pass-rushing defensive end/outside linebacker Travis LaBoy visited the 49ers for the second time in three months. This time he worked out for coaches and met with a couple of reporters in the media trailer. LaBoy started last season with the Cardinals, notched four sacks in his first four games and promptly tore ligaments in his […]
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Starting left guard David Baas signed his one-year tender offer the 49ers announced today. Signing the tender was a forgone conclusion after Baas signed a waiver to participate in the team’s two-day organized team activity practices a few weeks ago. Baas struggled initially last season after sustaining an ankle injury in the 49ers’ infamous “nutcracker” […]
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Before discerning where the 49ers will go in this upcoming draft, we might want to look back on where they’ve been. Even though general manager Scot McCloughan left five weeks before the draft, his handy work will be all over this one, since most of the work was done by the time he left. Pro […]
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There seems to be a small wellspring of chatter for the 49ers taking a quarterback in the first round, something I thought a month ago they wouldn’t do. But Clark Judge of CBS sportsline, who I greatly respect (he covered the 49ers for years) believes the 49ers aren’t that sure of Alex Smith. Matt Maiocco […]
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At nearly every position, the 49ers have a player on their roster to decently fulfill that role with the exception of returner and right tackle. Returner can be filled relatively easily with a draft pick or even a free agent, but right tackle is a wholly different story and here’s where the 49ers haven’t been […]
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So the 49ers let Donovan McNabb trot off to the Redskins without so much as a wave. And McNabb came relatively cheap, a second-rounder this year and a third-rounder in 2011. But should fans, bloggers and 49ers aficionados really be shedding tears over this? No. McNabb, statistically, wasn’t that much better than Alex Smith. Both […]
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UPDATE: The 49ers signed pass-rush linebacker Ahmad Brooks to a two-year contract, which allows Brooks and the team to tear up his one-year tender offer. Brooks is the team’s best hope for a terrorizing pass rusher. Playing part time, Brooks finished the season with six sacks and four forced fumbles. Alex Smith has a big […]
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So the new head talent evaluator and the still relatively new head coach venture off to Texas and Oklahoma to scout at least one player who’s clearly out of their reach. And, they miss first gathering of the 2010 team to do it. What are we to make of this? Was this simply male bonding? […]
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The 49ers set their exhibition schedule. They travel to Indy to open up against the Colts the during the second week of August, then they return home for a nationally televised game against the Vikings on Sunday night, Aug. 22 at 5 p.m. The penultimate game will be against the Raiders in Oakland. They finish […]
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Nose guard Aubrayo Franklin missed the 49ers’ just concluded two-day organized team activity. Although that’s not the way it looked to burgeoning nose guard Ricky Jean-Francois. For the second-year player out of LSU, Franklin is always there, at least virtually. Jean-Francois is trying to be Franklin’s backup after playing defensive tackle and end in college. […]
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